Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Bindmans LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 10 Oct 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 1293 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Direct and indirect race discrimination are distinct statutory wrongs. A neutral place-of-birth criterion is not direct discrimination on grounds of national…
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102 |
| 9 Jul 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 755 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Public authorities ordinarily retain power to change policy. An unequivocal promise or established practice of consultation will generally require consultation…
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91 |
| 13 Oct 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 2572 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A library authority must take reasonable steps to inform itself about local library needs before deciding whether its proposed service is comprehensive and…
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56 |
| 19 Dec 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 1586 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The public sector equality duty requires informed consideration of the statutory equality objectives throughout decision-making. Compliance is assessed in…
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56 |
| 16 Mar 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 234 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A community care assessor must consider material which is so obviously relevant that disregarding it would be perverse. Relevant material may reasonably be…
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33 |
| 21 Dec 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 1735 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A contract of employment depends on the contractual relationship viewed as a whole. Personal service and sufficient control do not compel employee status where…
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33 |
| 11 Jun 2014 |
[2014] UKSC 33 · Supreme Court
A religious dispute is not inherently non-justiciable. Courts will not determine the truth of religious beliefs or the validity of rites. They must, however…
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31 |
| 19 Jun 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 840 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A human rights claim may be certified as manifestly unfounded only where it is bound to fail before an adjudicator. A claim which is likely, or even very…
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26 |
| 11 Mar 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 250 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A professional conduct committee must determine culpability separately from sanction. Evidence concerning the circumstances in which misconduct occurred may…
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24 |
| 6 Jun 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 933 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Whether a defamatory statement is fact or opinion under section 3(2) of the Defamation Act 2013 depends on how the ordinary reasonable reader would understand…
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22 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 30 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1989 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
After an issue-estoppel ruling, a defence must not directly or indirectly allege that a claimant committed the estopped misconduct. It may describe the…
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| 30 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1978 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under section 508F of the Education Act 1996, a local authority has discretion to determine the form of necessary, free post-16 transport support. That…
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| 29 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2053 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under the Children Act 1989, judicial review examines the rationality of a local authority’s reasoning rather than substituting the court’s professional…
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| 24 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 955 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A statutory regulator does not ordinarily owe a private-law duty of care to a person under investigation merely because its compulsory regulatory steps may…
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| 10 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1726 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Where reasonableness governs judicial review of an adult classification for removal of an unaccompanied child under the UFT, the court applies anxious…
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| 10 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 888 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A public authority has no general common law duty to consult before adopting a measure. Fairness may nevertheless require consultation where identifiable…
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| 25 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1568 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The correctness standard of review does not apply automatically whenever a scheme uses the term “child”. The applicable standard depends on the statutory or…
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| 4 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1217 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Article 3 duties must be analysed by reference to the particular duty, public authority, and its powers and responsibilities. General responsibility as an…
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| 21 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 915 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The quality-of-law requirement under Articles 8, 10 and 11 does not impose a freestanding limit on the breadth of a public authority’s discretion. The question…
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| 27 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 102 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A local authority proposing to close a long-established community service for an identifiable cohort may owe a common-law duty to consult, even where the…
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| 17 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3320 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In determining meaning in a defamation claim, the court must identify the single natural and ordinary meaning conveyed to the hypothetical reasonable reader…
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| 12 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1433 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Permission to appeal should be refused where the proposed grounds cannot affect an adverse factual finding that independently determines the case. An…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Bindmans LLP: Bindman & Partners.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Bindmans LLP is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with Bindmans LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.